29 November 2022
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
Why is it that certain things have been hidden from the wise and learned, but revealed to the childlike? Jesus says in the Beatitudes, “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God,” (Matthew 5:8). Hence the disciples see and hear that for which prophets and kings longed: they see God and hear His voice in Jesus. Isaiah would prophesy of Jesus that He would have “…no majestic bearing to catch our eye, no beauty to draw us to him,” (Isaiah 53:2), and thus He would say to St. Peter after the apostle’s confession of faith, “For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father,” (Matthew 16:17). The wise and the learned, when presented with a mystery, too often seek to grasp it, to figure it out; a child simply believes and accepts. Thus as Christians “…we walk by faith, not by sight,” (2 Corinthians 5:7), and humbly accept that there are mysteries of our faith that we cannot grasp, and need not, in order to see the truth and accept it.